K&L Gates is a fully integrated global law firm with lawyers located across five continents in more than 40 offices.

Our Hong Kong office is now seeking a Manager, Accounting to join our Accounting Department. This role manages daily accounting functions for offices in Asia and ensures compliance with firmwide policies and procedures.

Essential Duties:

• Performs and manages daily accounting functions including but not limited to, preparing journal entries, reviewing and reconciling of the Firm’s cash and trust accounts, preparing accounting reports, and processing invoices and billings

• Be responsible for planning, prioritizing and directing workflow of accounting functions and interfacing with senior management

• Ensures accounting procedures are performed in a timely and accurate manner

• Addresses and resolves questions and issues from internal and/or external stakeholders by working closely with related parties

• Facilitates the use of financial data, and develops and prepares regular or ad hoc reports, charts and analysis

• Identifies opportunities for process improvements

• Provides support to the annual audit, and various projects supporting a variety of initiatives across the firm

• Assists with special projects, assignments, and other duties as assigned

Your Profile:

• 10 years of accounting and professional experience in an international law firm environment

• Bachelor’s degree or above, preferably in Accounting

• Fluency in English and Chinese

• Ability to oversee multiple functions while providing guidance to junior staff

• Good understanding of financial accounting rules and systems in a law firm setting across multiple jurisdictions

• Maintain professionalism with responsiveness, confidentiality, integrity, and sensitivity

• Detail-oriented and organized with a high degree of accuracy

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

About The Firm

K&L Gates is a fully integrated global law firm with lawyers located across five continents in more than 40 offices. We have experienced dramatic growth in the past decade and now rank among the largest U.S. based law firms in the world. We take pride in constantly striving for innovation, imagination and an entrepreneurial spirit. We come up with big ideas and then roll up our sleeves to get the job done, guiding our clients through their most complex issues in a variety of industry sectors and across multiple regions of the world.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

K&L Gates is an equal opportunity employer and promotes the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of those with a disability. We welcome applications from people who have an indigenous and/or culturally and linguistically diverse background.

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